Research concerning the phenomenon that learning of a participant in a health class spreads to their family and an area

<p>　The purpose of this research is to clarify spread situation to be an index someone (number of transmission-ee) who was transmitted learning from participants of the health class for one year, the attribute, and geographic range.</p><p>　The salt reduced classroom was held by university and municipality at B town in A prefecture. Six times of total were carried out this classroom about one time pre month between five months from November 2005 to March 2006, in addition, the class association was held after a half year in December 2006. In this classroom, a self-entry questionnaire concerning spread situation for the participants were carried out. The questionnaire was distributed to 34 persons, and the answer was got from 24 persons. The respondent was a woman entirely. As the result, transmission-ee were 202 for one year, number of persons for respondent one year were the average of 8.4 persons.</p><p>　The family was 44.0% on the breakdown of the transmission-ee person, and friends and acquaintances were 56.0%, and men were 16.8%, woman were 83.2%, residential area, and the B town was 72.3% and outside of B town were 27.7%. From these results, learning from salt reduced classroom was clarified through homogeneity networks such as family and friend. More than 90% of men about transmission-ee were transmitted from his family. For this reason, learning from salt reduced classroom have highly possibility to spread him through his family, the possibility in which the educational effectiveness also reached the man by the participation of the woman within the family member was indicated.</p>